In the Haunting Darkness is a collection of short fiction, poetry, and essays by Michael R. Collings.
In the Haunting Darkness is the sixth volume in the Legacy of the Corridor publication series.
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Contents (all content by Michael R. Collings unless otherwise noted):
- “A Light in the Darkness That Cannot Be Hid” (foreword) by Joe Monson
- “The Power of Story” (introduction)
- “The Persistence of Darkness” (essay)
- “The Epic of Dune: Epic Traditions in Modern Science Fiction” (essay)
- “To Name a Genre” (essay)
- “Literature, Genre, Horror…and Mormons—What?” (essay)
- “Monsters: Through a Perspective Glass” (essay)
- “On a Dark and Narrow Way” (essay)
- “…Is Death” (poem)
- “‘Night’s Plutonian Shore'” (poem)
- “In the House Beyond the Field” (poem)
- “The Dweller on the Edge of Day” (poem)
- “Warren—Portrait of the Artist as a Neurotic” (poem)
- “Warren Evaluates the Effects of Aripiprazole” (poem)
- “Warren Says Farewell to His Father’s Ghost” (poem)
- “On Entering the Fantastic” (essay)
- “Three Hallmarks of Horror: Location, Isolation, and Language” (essay)
- “Reading Stephen King” (essay)
- “Women and the Fantastic—A Glimpse into a Beginning” (essay)
- “On Seventeenth-Century Ghosts and What We Can Learn from Them” (essay)
- “Some Thoughts on the Werewolf” (essay)
- “Good Words/Bad Words” (essay)
- “Not–So-Good Horror: Why Little Things Count” (essay)
- “When Words Stumble” (essay)
- “Transforming Terrible” (essay)
- “A Midnight Shooting on the Golden State Freeway”
- “A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine’s Day”
- “Brace the Bear and the Great Eagle-beyond-the-Mountain”
- “Dame Ginny McLaserbeam and the Dastardly Duke” (with Judith Collings)
- “In the Haunting Darkness”
- “Jury of His Peers”
- “Miniaturist”
- “Palimpsest”
- “The Calling of Iam’Kendron”
- “Wer Means Man”
- “The Egress of Hell”
- “From: Averse to Horrors: An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous” (poem)
- “Because I Would Not Stop for Death” (poem)
- “Black Crocuses” (poem)
- “The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow” (poem)
- “Christ of Universe” (poem)
- “Dermatillomania” (poem)
- “The Envy of Demons” (poem)
- “The Galactic Ambassador Is Invited to Hear the Hand-built Organ on a Newly Conquered World, Its Function Explained by the Victorious Planetary Overlord” (poem)
- “Grendel’s Mother” (poem)
- “I Wander the Cosmos, Inventing It” (poem)
- “The Last Pastoral” (poem)
- “The Legend of Kometes” (poem)
- “Nosferatu Arrives at Wisborg” (poem)
- “On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California” (poem)
- “The Program” (poem)
- “Savage” (poem)
- “Spatio-Temporal Spectacles” (poem)
- “Tapestry” (poem)
- “Triple Sonnet in a Season of Pandemic” (poem)
- “The Wind from Whirl-Away” (poem)
- “And When the Bold Word-Monger Came” (poem)
- “When the Dreamer of Worlds Wakes” (poem)
Edited by: Joe Monson
Cover Artist: Joe Monson
Published by Hemelein Publications.
Release Date: 20 September 2022 (ebook and trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-1-64278-060-4 (trade paperback), 978-1-64278-061-1 (ebook)
LCCN: 2022941225
Price: $17.99 (trade paperback), $5.99 (ebook)
